Ecology

and
History
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ohio university press

T
he Ohio Series in Ecology & History
publishes important regional and
subregional studies of global and
comparative environmental history.
The series seeks to publish the best
emerging literature on the environmental
history of the wider world.

Series Editor
James L. A. Webb, Jr.
Dept. of History, Colby College
Waterville, Maine

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Ecology and History

New Wielding the Ax
Healing the Herds State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania,
1820–2000
Disease, Livestock Economies, and the
Globalization of Veterinary Medicine Thaddeus Sunseri
Edited by Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle Sunseri tells the story of the Tanzanian forests,
beginning with African chiefs and forest spirits,
“The history of veterinary medicine told from any-
both known as “ax–wielders,” and ending with
thing other than a triumphalist perspective, usually
the global call for biodiversity preservation.
with a nationalist slant, is rare. Essays in this out-
2009 304 pages
standing collection cover rural as well as urban issues
978-0-8214-1864-2   hc $55.00 
in veterinary disease and science from the eighteenth 978-0-8214-1865-3   pb $26.95
century to the present.”­—Diana K. Davis, UC Davis
2010 288 pages, illus.
978-0-8214-1884-0  hc $49.95
Triumph of the Expert
978-0-8214-1885-7  pb $24.95  Agrarian Doctrines of Development and
the Legacies of British Colonialism
Forthcoming Joseph Morgan Hodge
”A pathbreaking historical study with important
Nature and History implications for understanding the current nature
in Modern Italy of international development.”
—Journal of British Studies
Edited by Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall
2007 408 pages, illus.
Foreword by Donald Worster
978-0-8214-1718-8   hc $59.95 
“This book is to be welcomed as much for its pio- 978-0-8214-1718-8   pb $26.95 
neering quality as for the intellectual strengths and
empirical interest of its various chapters.”
—John Agnew, UCLA
Inventing Pollution
2010 360 pages
Coal, Smoke, and Culture
978-0-8214-1915-1  hc $64.95  in Britain since 1800
978-0-8214-1916-8  pb $30.00  Peter Thorsheim
“Peter Thorsheim has established himself as a
The Game of Conservation leading environmental historian of modern Britain.
His book will be of wide interest on both sides
International Treaties to Protect the
of the Atlantic.”—William Cronon
World’s Migratory Animals
2006 307 pages
Mark Cioc 978-0-8214-1680-8  hc $55.00
“An impressive and fresh approach to studying 978-0-8214-1681-5  pb $26.95 
the environment in the twenty–first century.”
—Michael Lewis
2009 232 pages, illus.
How Green Were the Nazis?
978-0-8214-1866-6  hc $44.95 Nature, Environment, and Nation
978-0-8214-1867-3  pb $24.95 
in the Third Reich
Edited by Franz-Josef Brüggemeier,
Winner of the Mark Cioc, and Thomas Zeller
2008 George Perkins Marsh Prize and
“Perhaps one of the greatest values of this
the 2007 Meridian Book Award book is to underscore once again the fact that
Resurrecting the environmentalism as a political belief system
has never been value-free and thus has been
Granary of Rome able to take vastly different political forms.”
Environmental History and French —Technology & Culture
Colonial Expansion in North Africa 2005 288 pages
978-0-8214-1646-4   hc $49.95
Diana K. Davis 978-0-8214-1647-1   pb $22.95 
“In this superbly documented, tightly argued study,
Diana Davis reveals how French foresters and ecolo-
gists supplied the spurious ‘scientific’ justification
for the transfer of North Africa’s most valuable real
estate from local populations to French colonists.”
— Paul Robbins
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2007 312 pages, illus.
20% discount:
978-0-8214-1752-2   hc $28.95  www.ohioswallow.com
978-0-8214-1751-5   pb $28.95 
Imperial Gullies Tropical Pioneers
Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho Human Agency and Ecological Change in
Kate B. Showers the Highlands of Sri Lanka, 1800 –1900
“Showers shows how local people understood that James L. A. Webb, Jr.
colonial contour conservation methods and road “James L. Webb is the first to treat the range of
building actually stimulated gully erosion, something causes of highland deforestation in the nineteenth
colonial scientists failed to realize. . . . An unusually century and to explicitly document the immediate
sophisticated work of great insight and explanatory environmental impacts of the land use practices
power.”—Richard H. Grove applied. . . . The book provides a new window
2005 376 pages, illus. on nineteenth-century Sri Lankan history and a
978-0-8214-1613-6   hc $55.00  wonderful read in environmental history for the
978-0-8214-1614-3   pb $26.95 
region in general.”—Environmental History
A Choice Outstanding Book 2003 336 pages
978-0-8214-1427-9  hc $55.00 
Highland Sanctuary 978-0-8214-1428-6  pb $24.95 
Environmental History in
Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains
Christopher A. Conte
Eroding the Commons
Conte makes a significant contribution to the
The Politics of Ecology in Baringo, Kenya,
growing field of global environmental history. 1890s –1963
“This fascinating study deserves the attention of a David M. Anderson
wide variety of scholars and development experts. This excellent study of the evolution of colonial ideo­
Highly recommended.”—Choice logies and practices reports on the experience of
2004 256 pages Baringo, where an environmental crisis prompted
978-0-8214-1553-5  hc $55.00  officials to establish programs for conservation and
978-0-8214-1554-2  pb $24.95  development that became models for British Africa.
A brilliantly researched and written book.
Inventing Global Ecology “An ample demonstration of the value of local
stories to illuminate global trends.”—Jim McCann
Tracking the Biodiversity Ideal in India,1947–1997
2003 352 pages
Michael L. Lewis 978-0-8214-1479-8  hc $49.95 
“This extremely well-written book is engaging, 978-0-8214-1480-4  pb $24.95 
creatively researched, and a welcome contribution
to the twentieth-century history of both Indian wildlife
conservation and the rise of biodiversity conservation Encountering the Past in Nature
ideas globally.”—American Historical Review Essays in Environmental History
2004 352 pages, illus. Edited by Timo Myllyntaus
978-0-8214-1540-5   hc $55.00 
978-0-8214-1541-2   pb $26.00
and Mikko Saikku
Available in North America “In a field traditionally dominated by works on
the United States, the [book offers] a fresh
South Africa’s Environmental international perspective, finding fertile ground
for the study of people and nature in diverse
History lands.”—Economic History Review
Cases and Comparisons
“This is a gem of a book that ought to be read
Edited by Stephen Dovers,
by all environmental historians to remind us
Ruth Edgecombe, and Bill Guest what we do and why.”—Michael Egan
“Contributors to this volume  . . . are widely 2001 184 pages, illus., maps
respected in the field of South African environmental 978-0-8214-1357-9  hc $39.95
history. . . . The strength of this collection lies in its 978-0-8214-1358-6  pb $16.95
valuable lessons about ‘doing history,’ that is, lessons
about historiography. Finally, some of the chapters
just make for downright engrossing reading.” The Green Archipelago
—African Studies Review Forestry in Preindustrial Japan
2003 329 pages Conrad Totman
978-0-8214-1498-9  pb $24.95 
“Impassioned, timely history that contributes by
its sweep, subject, and approach. Because the
Social History and author examines a wide variety of factors, including
African Environments economics, politics, institutions, population, culture,
and the environment, the book is a model of sound
Edited by William Beinart
historical thinking.”—Journal of Asian Studies
and JoAnn McGregor
2001 316 pages, photos, maps
This collection presents some of the finest studies 978-0-8214-1255-8  hc $21.95 
to date on African environmental history.
2003 352 pages
978-0-8214-1537-5  hc $49.95
978-0-8214-1538-2  pb $27.95 
Of related interest

Hanging by a Thread Ecology of African The World Beyond

Cotton, Globalization, and
Poverty in Africa
Edited by William G. Moseley
and Leslie C. Gray
“Moseley and Gray have assembled a
uniquely comprehensive picture of the
way cotton connects poor farmers,
wealthy consumers, activist
organizations, industrial giants, and
agronomic laboratories. . . . It provides a
kaleidoscopic window into the pressing
complexities of environment and
development.”—Paul Robbins
2008 304 pages, illus.
978-0-89680-260-5
pb $24
Pastoral Societies the Windshield
Katherine Homewood Roads and Landscapes in the
“A tour de force, if one considers the United States and Europe
vast amount of material it covers, and Edited by Christof Mauch
the clear and balanced summaries it and Thomas Zeller
provides of recent literature and debates. “The essays in this wonderful volume not
A compendium of information about only provide a clear and graceful journey
cattle-herding groups in Africa, and through various North American and
about approaches to understanding European landscapes of automobility. They
their history and ecology. Clear and also reveal a fascinating and formative
well judged summaries of the current set of relations between designers and
state of knowledge.”—David Turton consumers.”
2009 320 pages, color illus., maps — Paul S. Sutter
978-0-8214-1840-6
2008 312 pages, illus.
hc $55.00 
978-0-8214-1767.6
978-0-8214-1841-3
hc $49.95 
pb $26.95
978-0-8214-1768-3
pb $22.95 

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